Childbirth
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:34 pm
Nick asked what Plutarch said about Darius's wife's presumed death in childbirth. The expression Plutarch uses is "en +¦disi", which means "pangs of childbirth". The dictionary of Liddel and Scott gives no other variants; the entire lemma is devoted to childbirth & pain.Jona